A geographer has pinpointed the center of North America, and it turns out to be the town of Center, North Dakota.

The North American center was previously thought to be a small body of water about 20 miles southwest of the town of Rugby, North Dakota.

But University of Buffalo Professor Peter Rogerson says his method has determined the more accurate center of the continent, more than 100 miles away in Center.

The town of Center, North Dakota has been pegged as the geographical center of North America, according to a new calculation. Above, a bar in the small town

The North American center was previously thought to be a small body of water about 20 miles southwest of the town of Rugby, North Dakota - more than 100 miles away

'There are all these people out there saying, "There's no real good way to do this,"' Rogerson said in a statement. '[But] as a geographer, my feeling is that if we want to come up with a good way of defining a center, we can and we should.'

Previous methods for calculating the center of a geographic region included balancing a cardboard cutout of the area on a needle.

Rogerson's method is more precise using mathematics. He says he uses a projection of the area that preserves essential qualities about a 3-D landmass that are lost when they are projected on a 2D surface.